The earth erupts as a massive insect bursts free from the ground, the force of its exit easily knocking Toby and his dream beings off their feet. The enormous butter ant shakes off the rubble littering its body, revealing itself fully.
[You Have Encountered A Dangerous Dream Being]
[Name: Butter Ant Queen]
[Race: Beast Type Dream Being]
[Title: Domain Guardian]
[Level: High Grade Dream Being]
[Skills: Queen's Colony]
[New Quest Received]
[Defeat The Butter Ant Queen]
[Quest Reward: ????]
[Quest Penalty: Pain, Suffering, Possibly Death]
Toby Robinson: That's reassuring. (Toby thought, not liking this information at all)... Guys, where are you?! (Toby calls out to them, getting up from the ground and looking for his dream beings)
Charming, Noble and Browny were pushed back by the shockwave the queen created, separating them from the young dreamer. Using the displacement to their advantage, the butter ants have begun to surround all the intruders.
Toby Robinson: Inspect. (Toby activates the skill while scanning the battlefield, readying himself for the fight)
[Inspect]
[Name: Butter Ant Soldier]
[Race: Beast Type Dream Being]
[Level: Normal Grade Dream Being]
[Skills: Crushing Bite]
[Name: Butter Ant Drone]
[Race: Beast Type Dream Being]
[Level: Normal Grade Dream Being]
[Skills: Venom Spray]
The butter ant soldiers control the ground, while the butter ant drones dominate the air, all ready and willing to die defending their queen.
Toby Robinson: Are you guys okay?! (Toby asks, spotting his dream beings a short distance away)
Prince Charming: Couldn't be better, My Lord! (Charming replies, his steel sword and shield held firmly in his hands)
"Roar!!!" (Browny sounded as he reared up, ready to leap into battle)
"Neigh!!!" (Noble sounded while stomping his hooves, a puff of smoke escaping from his nostrils)
Prince Charming: Just say the word, and this battle shall begin! (Charming tells him, smiling as he awaited his order)
Toby Robinson: Let's do this!!! (Toby shouts, running towards an ant and quickly jumping off its hard body, rising into the air)... Tamed Empowerment... Activate, Majestic Speed! (Toby yells, activating the skill and then landing with enough force to effortlessly crush the ground, sending a group of ants flying)
[Majestic Speed Activated]
Toby's legs glowed with pure white energy as the Majestic Speed skill surged through him, enhancing his muscles and priming them for super speed movement.
Toby Robinson: Dream Sword! Dream Shield! (Toby yells, quickly summoning his weapons and taking a fighting stance)... Let's take em down! (Toby commanded, before moving faster than a speeding bullet and cutting down all the ants in his way)
Prince Charming leaps into battle, his skill with a blade evident by the way he decimated scores of ants. The butter ant drones fly in for an attack, firing a yellowish liquid from their stingers.
Charming quickly raises his shield, blocking the liquid before it can even reach him. But what happens to the shield afterwards makes Charming worry.
Prince Charming: Acid! The fliers shoot acid! (Charming yells out a warning, still watching as the substance sizzles and burns on the shield)... It's strong enough to dent my shield, do not let it touch you! (Charming warns everyone, removing the acid by slamming the shield against a butter ant soldier)
Toby blocks the venom spray from several Drones, now wary of the attack.
Toby Robinson: So that's where the venom comes from... Good to know. (Toby smirks, his blue eyes charging up with dream energy as he quickly takes aim)... Dream Beam! (Toby shouts, unleashing the attack and blasting multiple Drones clean out of the air)
[-22 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1522 Dream Points]
The Drones fly incredibly fast, with some even managing to avoid getting hit by the dream beams, but it still breaks their coordination.
While the young dreamer is distracted with the Butter Ant Drones. A Butter Ant Soldier approaches him from behind, clamping down on Toby's leg with its bone crushing mandibles.
The pain is immediate and agonizing, making Toby scream at the top of his lungs.
Redirecting his gaze the young dreamer blasts the ant with the still active dream beams. But the damage has already been done.
[-35HP]
[65/100HP]
The young dreamer falls to the ground, clutching his injured and bleeding leg. The pain was almost unbearable, and his blue blood was spilling like crazy.
[You Have Been Greatly Injured]
[Your Health Will Slowly Decrease By -5HP Until You Heal]
Toby Robinson: Damn it! Heal!!! (Toby yells, activating his healing abilities and quickly repairing the damage to his leg)
[-35 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1487 Dream Points]
[100/100HP]
Most of the blue blood seeps back into his body, his flesh and clothing stitching back to normal like nothing even happened. Now fully healed, Toby looks up to see a swarm of butter ants heading towards him.
[Browny Has Activated His Terror Charge]
[Browny Has Activated His Terror Claws]
Browny leaps into action, defending Toby by lashing out at his attackers. Browny's energized claws cut through the ants like a hot knife through butter, none of them standing a chance against the bear's ferocious nature.
"Roar!!!" (Browny stood his ground, still protecting Toby from the ants)
Toby Robinson: Thanks, Browny. I'll take it from here. (Toby tells him, stepping forward to confront the ants himself)
Several Butter Ant Drones set their sights on the young dreamer, firing at him with their venom spray. But Toby is more than ready for them.
Toby Robinson: Activate... Royal Strength and Terror Charge! (Toby shouts, his body mixing with the red and blue energies of the combined skills)
[Royal Strength Activated]
[Terror Charge Activated]
The venom spray attack moves quickly through the air, about to bathe Toby with the acidic substance. But in the blink of an eye Toby's vision ignites with red energy, and two words escape his lips.
"Dream Beam!!!" (Toby bellows, firing his terror charged dream beams and completely annihilating the Drones and their venom)
[-21 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1466 Dream Points]
The terror beams are still active, so Toby quickly spins around, blasting as many Drones as he can with the power he has left.
The beams eventually run out of juice, but the young dreamer is still empowered by terror energy, add that with Charming's Royal Strength and Noble's Majestic Speed, he's on a whole other level from these ants. Moving at unmatched speeds, Toby crushes these ants with his bare hands, leaving his dream sword and shield somewhere on the ground.
Toby Robinson: Come on, just try and bite me! I freaking dare you! (Toby shouts with a crazed look in his red eyes, sending dozens of ants flying with his fists alone)... (Huff*Huff*Huff) Calm down, Toby. Calm down... You can't let this power control you, you control it! (Toby tells himself fiercely, trying his hardest to remain calm)
Using the Terror Charge skill heightens Toby's emotions, threatening to strip away his sense of self. But he isn't a wild beast, he cannot allow himself to surrender to these violent impulses. A swordsman must always remain calm and collected, that is what Charming taught him.
[Majestic Speed Deactivated]
Toby Robinson: I need to end this fight quick, before I lose the rest of my tamed skills. Shouldn't be too hard, the Queen is just standing there... Easy target! (Toby smiles before rushing forward, finally attacking the high grade dream being)... Dream Beam! (Toby yells, stopping his dash and blasting the Queen with his terror charged dream beams)
[-20 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1446 Dream Points]
The Butter Ant Queen doesn't run or even try to avoid the attack, she takes the beams straight through her exoskeleton, the incredible power of the attack splitting her into two halves.
Toby Robinson: I did it! I'm now strong enough to take down a high grade! (Toby yells excitedly, already celebrating his victory)
The butter ants don't take the death of their Queen lightly, they Intensify their attacks, swarming and attacking Toby and his dream beings more fiercely.
Toby Robinson: Dream Sword! Dream Shield! (Toby grins, summoning his dream weapons and defending himself from the ants)... Wait a second, something doesn't feel right. I defeated their Queen, so why haven't I received that message yet? I should be getting my rewards right about now... Could she still be alive? (Toby pondered this question, while fighting off an even more aggressive and relentless
swarm of butter ants)
[-25HP]
[-20HP]
[-35HP]
[20/100HP]
Toby Robinson: Aaaaaaaargh!!! (Toby screams in pain, multiple ants managing to bite several parts of his body)... Dream Beams!!! (Toby shouts, blasting away all the ants that were on him, but he's now covered in his own blood)
Charming, Noble and Browny are all fighting as hard as they can, but their situation is no different from the young dreamer's.
Prince Charming: These ants are incredibly resilient. Even in death, they do not surrender. (Charming grunts, prying off the bodiless head of the ant biting his leg)... There's more work to be done. (Charming groans as he retrieves his fallen sword, preparing to battle a new swarm of ants)
Browny and Noble have been forced into a corner, trying fiercely to fight their way out of that predicament. But the ants are just relentless, not giving them an inch of breathing room.
[Prince Charming Has Been Injured]
[Browny Has Been Injured]
[Noble Has Been Injured]
[You Have Been Greatly Injured]
[Your Health Will Slowly Decrease By -5HP Until You Heal]
[Terror Charge Deactivated]
[Royal Strength Deactivated]
Toby Robinson: Tamed Holding! (Toby yells out, drawing in and absorbing all his dream beings into his body)... There's too many of them, we have to go! (Toby decided quickly, stretching out a hand and preparing to open a dream door)
But then, seemingly without reason, the ants cease their assault, all turning toward the fallen body of their Queen. The lifeless husk cracks and trembles, every movement holding the ant's attention. Suddenly a flying insect bursts free from the corpse, Its golden exoskeleton vibrant and commanding.
Toby Robinson: The heck is that? Inspect! (Toby scans this new threat, quickly gauging its strength)
[Inspect]
[Name: Butter Ant Queen (Drone Form)]
[Race: Beast Type Dream Being]
[Title: Domain Guardian]
[Level: High Grade Dream Being]
[Skills: Queen's Command]
Toby Robinson: (Chuckles) These high grades are just full of surprises... There's no way I'm leaving now, not until I take her down and get those rewards. (Toby said with a smile, now more determined to finish this fight)
The Butter Ant Queen releases strong chemical pheromones from her golden insectoid armor, the invisible scent sweeping through the hive like a war cry, commanding the ants to resume their assault on the intruder, now charging towards the young dreamer.
Toby Robinson: This is not gonna be easy, but I think I can pull it off. (Toby thought to himself, confidently smiling as he comes up with a new plan of attack)... Hea... (Toby is about to heal himself, but a message from the System stops that from happening)
[-5HP]
[15/100HP]
[Your Health Is Too Low]
[Second Wind Skill Activated]
Toby Robinson: I can't believe I forgot about this... Heck yeah! (Toby grins, glad to have any help he can get)
[Second Wind Activated]
[+55 Dream Points]
[+55 Health]
[Dream Bank: 1501 Dream Points]
[70/100HP]
[Tamed Skills Can Now Be Reactivated]
Toby got excited after reading this message, realising he can go all out one more time. There's no stopping him now.
Toby Robinson: Activate... Majestic Speed, Royal Strength, and Terror Charge! (Toby shouts as he activated the three skills, his smile growing wider with each surge of energy, the power coursing through his veins and empowering him)
[Majestic Speed Activated]
[Royal Strength Activated]
[Terror Charge Activated]
Toby Robinson: Alright goldilocks! Let's finish this! (Toby shouts, rushing towards the charging army of butter ants, having no doubt in his mind that he will win)
Next: I Win.